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The Hugo Markdown Crash Course

What is Text?

Now that you have a mostly functional site, you’ll need to get content into it. Luckily, Hugo makes that easy! Markdown is a simple but expressive syntax which makes creating formatted text simple and streamlined. GitHub uses it to format commits, Microsoft Docs makes heavy use of Markdown, and now you know that Hugo’s text-to-HTML strategy is Markdown as well.

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